... expected findings were that upward social mobility is declining in America, social mobility depends on race, income, mother and father occupation, and ethnicity. The method of research that I used was literature review. I found that 1) upward social mobility is more likely for a white individual than a black individual 2) upward social mobility among the lower classes is decreasing and downward social mobility is ... in to the middle class. In this article the author goes over these statistics as well as explaining and interpreting them. Rodriguez found that more than half the househol...

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